[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D84]
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                                        Tuesday, February 20, 1996 

[[Page D84]]


                              Daily Digest


                                 Senate


Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S1269-S1284
Measures Introduced: Two bills were introduced, as follows: S. 1569-
1570.
  Page S1276
Measures Reported: Reports were made as follows:
  S. 981, entitled ``Truck Safety and Congressional Partnership Act''. 
(S. Rept. No. 104-235)
Page S1276
Measures Passed:
   Land Disposal Program Flexibility Act: Committee on Environment and 
Public Works was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2036, to 
amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to make certain adjustments in the 
land disposal program to provide needed flexibility, and the bill was 
then passed, after agreeing to the following amendment proposed 
thereto:
  Pages S1280-82
  Lott (for Chafee) Amendment No. 3464, to amend the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act to make certain adjustments in the land disposal program 
to provide needed flexibility.
Pages S1280-81
Removal of Injunction of Secrecy: The injunction of secrecy was removed 
from the following treaty:
  The Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United 
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating 
to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly 
Migratory Fish Stocks, with Annexes (''the Agreement''). (Treaty Doc. 
No. 104-24).
  The treaty was transmitted to the Senate today, considered as having 
been read for the first time, and referred, with accompanying papers, 
to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed.

Pages S1282-83
Messages From the President: Senate received the following messages 
from the President of the United States: A communication from the 
President of the United States, transmitting, the annual report of the 
National Endowment of Democracy for fiscal year 1995; referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations. (PM-122).
  Page S1276
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
  George W. Black, Jr., of Georgia, to be a Member of the National 
Transportation Safety Board.
Pages S1282, S1284
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
  Joaquin F. Otero, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
  Mark Edwin Emblidge, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National 
Institute for Literacy Advisory Board.
  Alberta Sebolt George, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the 
National Museum Services Board.
  Mary Dodd Greene, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Institute 
for Literacy Advisory Board.
  Henry McKoy, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the African Development Foundation.
  David A. Ucko, of Missouri, to be a Member of the National Museum 
Services Board.
  Routine lists in the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard.
Pages S1283-84
Messages From the President:
                                                        Page S1276
Messages From the House:
                                                        Page S1276
Executive Reports of Committees:
                                                        Page S1276
Statements on Introduced Bills:
                                                    Pages S1276-77
Additional Cosponsors:
                                                    Pages S1277-78
Amendments Submitted:
                                                        Page S1278
Additional Statements:
                                                    Pages S1278-80
Adjournment: Senate convened at 11 a.m., and adjourned at 12:54 p.m., 
until 11 a.m., on Friday, February 23, 1996. (For Senate's program, see 
the remarks of the Assistant Majority Leader in today's Record on page 
S1283.)